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WNYC has recently endured layoffs and unfortunately, our colleagues at New Sounds are slated to be part of the most recent round of staff cuts. John Schaefer, host of WNYC's New Sounds, explains how his team is working on the campaign to save New Sounds.For more information, or to donate, click here.
New York composer and guitarist Rafiq Bhatia is part of the art rock band Son Lux, the experimental trio best-known for scoring the film Everything Everywhere All At Once. His new EP – his first new solo project in 5 years - features pianist and improviser Chris Pattishall and is called Each Dream, A Melting Door. In their electro-acoustic songs, Rafiq alters the audio output from his guitar in real time with effects software, while Chris responds at the keyboard - although sometimes Chris will lead the exploration. ("It's basically a set of works for a piano that sounds like a piano and a guitar that sounds like anything and everything else", -John Schaefer.) The longtime friends and collaborators play some of their filmic, sculpted, and evolving soundscapes, in-studio. Set list: 1. Occlusion 2. Ijen 3. Supplicant
In their 15 years on the scene, Spotify has reshaped the way that people listen to music. A new book explores what the streaming company did to get so powerful, and how it is continuing to alter the music landscape, often in ways that disadvantage the artists it claims to support. Journalist Liz Pelly discusses the reporting from her book, Mood Machine: The Rise of Spotify and the Costs of the Perfect Playlist. Liz Pelly will be in conversation with WNYC's John Schaefer at the New York Public Library's Stavros Niarchos Foundation Library on March 11.
Third Coast Percussion is a Grammy-winning classical quartet based in Chicago. They're all composers themselves, but they've also worked with a wide variety of other composers, including Philip Glass and the late great tabla player Zakir Hussain. Their new EP, Murmurs In Time, features Zakir's work of that name, and he was supposed to join Third Coast Percussion here today, but as you may know, he passed away in December. This Soundcheck studio premiere of the work features a disciple of Hussain's, Salar Nader. We'll also hear an excerpt from another work written for Third Coast Percussion, by Tigran Hamasyan, the Armenian jazz pianist and composer. Oh – and it's in 23/8, for anyone counting along. (-John Schaefer) Set list: 1. Tigran Hamasyan – Sonata for Percussion, 3rd Mvmt. – “23 for TCP” 2. Zakir Hussain: Murmurs In Time – second mvmt.
On today's show:WNYC celebrates its 100th birthday with a live show at Central Park SummerStage, hosted by Brian Lehrer and featuring WNYC hosts Alison Stewart, Brooke Gladstone, Micah Loewinger, Sean Carlson and John Schaefer, plus Ira Glass, trivia, live musical performances and more. This version was edited for time.For audio of the full show (including Nada Surf!), check here: https://www.wnyc.org/100/For video, check here: https://thegreenespace.org/watch/wnyc-and-friends-centennial-celebration-2/
As our centennial series continues, John Schaefer, host of WNYC's New Sounds, takes us through WNYC's musical legacy.
As part of our weeklong unveiling of winners of the 2024 Public Song Project, Mal Petty joins us to discuss their song adaptation of Margery Swett's poem "Winter Wife." Plus, WNYC New Sounds and Soundcheck host John Schaefer joins us to discuss takeaways from the 2024 Public Song Project and share some of his personal favorite submissions and runners up.*This segment is guest-hosted by Kousha Navidar
The show is a production of WNYC, New York Public Radio. Vocalist and anthropologist Galeet Dardashti is an advocate of Middle Eastern and North African Jewish culture. She founded the all-woman Middle Eastern Jewish ensemble, Divahn, specializes in Mizrahi cultural politics, music and media in Israel, and is a visiting professor at NYU who has begun research on progressive, millennial Sephardi/Mizrahi North American Jews.Her latest recording is Monajat, a Persian word meaning an intimate dialogue with the Divine. The record is also a digital collaboration with the recorded voice of her grandfather Younes Dardashti, a master singer of Persian classical music in 1950s/60s Iran, backed by an all-star ensemble that includes Shanir Ezra Blumenkranz on oud and bass; Max ZT on hammered dulcimer; Zafer Tawi on violin, ney, vocals, percussion; Philip Mayer on drums; and John Stanesco contributing electronics.On Monajat, Galeet Dardashti takes as her inspiration the Hebrew sacred music of the Selihot ritual (or penitential prayers) and merges Persian piyutim (liturgical songs) traditionally chanted as part of the Selihot service, as well as other liturgical and non-liturgical Hebrew and Persian poetry set to new music. “Monajat”, a song likely written by Younes Dardashti, in the style of the 13th century Sufi poet Rumi, is how her grandfather's original recording of Selihot ends. Galeet Dardashti presents selections from Monajat, and talks about "bridging generations and geography" (John Schaefer) for this New Sounds. - Caryn HavlikProgram #4788, With Galeet DardashtiARTIST: Galeet Dardashti WORK: Aneinu [1:32] RECORDING: Monajat SOURCE/INFO: galeetdardashti.bandcamp.com/album/monajatARTIST: Galeet Dardashti WORK: Adon Haselichot [4:54] RECORDING: Monajat SOURCE/INFO: galeetdardashti.bandcamp.com/album/monajatARTIST: Galeet Dardashti WORK: Adonai Hu Ha'elohim [5:13] RECORDING: Monajat SOURCE/INFO: galeetdardashti.bandcamp.com/album/monajatARTIST: Galeet Dardashti WORK: Melekh [5:06] RECORDING: Monajat SOURCE/INFO: galeetdardashti.bandcamp.com/album/monajatARTIST: Galeet Dardashti WORK: Monajat [4:10] RECORDING: Monajat SOURCE/INFO: galeetdardashti.bandcamp.com/album/ARTIST: Galeet Dardashti WORK: Aneinu [4:21] RECORDING: Monajat SOURCE/INFO: galeetdardashti.bandcamp.com/album/monajatARTIST: Galeet Dardashti WORK: The Awakening [6:01] RECORDING: Monajat SOURCE/INFO: galeetdardashti.bandcamp.com/album/monajat
Send us a Text Message.Ahead of his performance at the New York Guitar Festival, now in its 25th year, producer, guitarist, and composer Yonatan Gat (Stone Tapes) sat down with the Host of WNYC's New Sounds, John Schaefer, joined by two artists who will also perform as a part of Night Two of the festival - Daryl Black Eagle Jamieson of the Eastern Medicine Singers and Gnawa master Maalem Hassan Benjaafar. Rounding out the Night Two lineup will be Lee Ranaldo (Sonic Youth), Mamady Kouyaté, and Laraaji, John Schaefer will host both nights - June 14 and 15, 2024 at Kaufman Music Center in Manhattan. Link to Night One - Marc Ribot & Leyla McCalla, Yasmin Williams, Neel Murgai & Kunal PrakashLink to Night Two - The Medicine Singers featuring Yonatan Gat and Lee Ranaldo, Maalem Hassan Benjaafar, Mamady Kouyaté, and LaraajiSupport the Show.Stay in touch with us! Join our newsletter
José James has often been called a “jazz singer for the hip hop generation,” having come to jazz through tracing hip hop samples and over the course of twelve records, he's also incorporated R&B, soul, rock, funk, and Latin music into his songs. While he's mostly sung his own music over the years, he has occasionally covered songs by some of his favorite artists: Bill Withers, Gil Scott-Heron, Erykah Badu and Billie Holiday. James has just released a new album called 1978, which sees him looking back, past hip hop, to the soul music of the 70s. But this is soul music with a message; songs like “For Trayvon” make that clear. But it's also message-music with soul: José James closes the album with “38th & Chicago,” which has a jazzy bassline, an almost bossa nova guitar sound, and a Caribbean lilt in the percusson. José James and his band play some of these hot grooves in-studio. -John Schaefer Set list: 1. Let's Get It 2. Planet Nine 3. Saturday Night (Need You Now)
The HOTU clan members Justin and Reyreturn from their molten homeworld to present to you another trophy...er, I mean issue! PREDATOR:THE LAST HUNT #2 In this issue by Ed Brisson, we see the return of fan favourite, John Schaefer...Theta and Paolo are in the thick of it once again...can they survive another issue without being killed by human or Yautja? Tune in to find out! ' I'm gonna cut your name right into him....' Check out the video version of this podcast here! WHERE TO FIND US: We're currently on - Email - predpreypod@outlook.com Facebook - facebook.com/predpreypod Twitter - @predpreypod Instagram - instagram.com/predpreypod Youtube - youtube.com/@predpreypod Discord - Server Here! SHOW NOTES: Predator: The Last Hunt CHECK OUT OUR OTHER PODCASTS: Pathways: A Sith Podcast (FKA Tomes of Evil) Into the Knight - The Moon Knight Podcast Gamma Charge - The Strongest Podcast There Is To Know Her Is To Fear Her - The Spider-Woman Podcast Trapped In A World - The Howard the Duck Podcast Capes & Lunatics ( We Are the Knight, The Batman Podcast; Ultimate Spider-Cast (Scarlet Spider); Marvel Tales ) MUSIC BY: Music Interpretation Laboratory With special thanks to Dave for letting us use their music Check them out on - YouTube - MIL Twitter - @mil_musiclab Instagram - @mil.musiclab
Segment 1: Ilyce Glink, owner of Think Glink Media and Best Money Moves, joins John to talk about how much money some Americans are willing to spend on credit cards, the current mortgage rates, and how that's impacting the economy. Segment 2: John Schaefer, COO of Brightfarms, joins John to talk about Brightfarms operations, the new Yorkville location, the 100+ […]
True Crime Podcast 2024 - REAL Police Interrogations, 911 Calls, True Police Stories and True Crime
Serial Killer Richard Cottingham (The Times Square Killer) Documentary Cottingham was born in Bronx, New York in 1946, but his family moved to New Jersey when he was 12. He had two younger siblings. His father worked for an insurance company and his mother was a homemaker. His childhood was fairly normal. When his family moved to New Jersey, he entered seventh grade at St. Andrews, where he had trouble making friends since he was new to the area. Because he had poor eyesight, he wasn't good at sports. In high school, where he fit in better, he joined the track team because it allowed him time alone. After graduating, he found work as a computer operator at the insurance company where his father worked and also took computer classes. When he was 20, Cottingham got a job at the Blue Cross Blue Shield Association as a computer operator. In 1967, aged 21, Cottingham committed his first murder, fatally strangling a 29-year-old woman, Nancy Vogel, a crime he didn't confess to until 2010. In 1969, he was convicted of drunken driving and was sentenced to a $50 fine and 10 days in jail. At the age of 23, he married. In 1972, he was charged with robbery and sexual assult, but the case was dismissed. During his serial killing years, Cottingham had at least two affairs. In 1979, his wife filed for divorce. For some reason, she withdrew it after his arrest and moved to Poughkeepsie with their children. Killings and Incarceration Cottingham in court. From 1967 to 1980, Cottingham is known to have killed nine females and attempted to kill an additional four, though he has claimed to have killed as many as 100. On the night of December 15, he abducted a 26-year-old nurse named Maryann Carr from the parking lot near her apartment, took her to a motel, tortured and killed her. In March the following year, Cottingham, using the alias "John Schaefer", approached a woman named Karen Schilt in a bar, drugged her, took her to an unknown location, raped her and left her for dead in a sewer near an apartment complex. Because she was found by a hotel employee, she survived, but couldn't remember much useful information about the assault, so the case went cold until Cottingham's arrest. In October, he drugged, sexually assaulted and tried to kill a prostitute named Susan Geiger, who also survived. In the beginning of December of 1979, Cottingham solicited a pair of prostitutes, took them to the Travel Lodge Motor Inn in New York, spent the night torturing, killing and mutilating both of them, removing their heads and hands and taking them with him, and then set the room and the bodies on fire. They were found when the staff saw smoke coming from under the door. Only one of the victims, Deedah Godzari, was identified. The identity of the other remains unknown, though she is estimated to have been in her late teens. In 1980, Cottingham attacked four women within less than three weeks. The first, Valerie Ann Street, was killed in a motel room and burned like the previous two victims. The next, Pamela Weisenfield, survived her attack. On May 15, the burned body of Ann Reyner was found in a hotel room in Manhattan South. She was also burned, but Cottingham didn't remove her head or hands; instead, he cut off both her breasts. On May 22, he solicited a prostitute named Leslie Ann O'Dell and took her to the Quality Inn Motel in Hasbrouck Heights, the same motel to which he had taken Valerie Ann Street and killed her. While he was torturing O'Dell, security staff heard her screams and called the police. When Cottingham tried to run, he was caught by them and arrested. Among his possessions, they found handcuffs, an open roll of duct tape, leather S&M gear, a toy gun, a knife and the drug he had used to incapacitate his victims. During interrogation, Cottingham claimed to have paid O'Dell $180 for sex and that everything he did to her had been consentual. Further investigation connected him to more crimes; his fingerprint was found on a pair of handcuffs found on Valerie Ann Street's crime scene. When the police searched his home, they found mountains of evidence linking him to other murders, such as the key to Mary Ann Carr's apartment, a toy koala bear and a pair of earrings that had belonged to Valerie Ann Street, and jewelry belonging to Deedah Godzari and Ann Reyner. His handwriting also linked him to the motel rooms he had rented and committed the killings inside. The following year, Cottingham was found guilty of 15 of the 20 counts for which he was charged. Over the next three years, he was put on trial for his additional murders and attempted murders. During the proceedings, he attempted suicide twice. In total, he was convicted of five murders (he confessed to Nancy Vogel's murder many years later) and sentenced to hundreds of years in prison, a sentence he is still serving. In 2020, he confessed to three more murders. Modus Operandi Cottingham targeted petite blondes in their late teens-mid-20s and most often prostitutes. He would solicit them somehow, drug them by spiking their drinks with Tuinal (a date rape drug used before Rohypnol became available) in bars and take them somewhere secluded, usually to a motel, where he would bind them, gag them with duct tape, brutally rape, torture and stab them before killing them by strangling them with a ligature. Presumably to make identification harder, he would sometimes cut off their heads and hands and take the parts with him. Among his known methods of torture were severely biting and scratching their nipples, cutting around the breasts and threatening them with a toy gun and leaving it within their reach so they could try to grab it only to discover that it was fake. He would also make his victims call him "master". He took trophies such as jewelry and other personal belongings. After the crimes, he went to great lengths to cover them up, sometimes hiding the bodies in secluded locations or even setting them and the room they were in on fire. Known Victims Maryann Carr, Cottingham's fifth victim. October 28, 1967, Ridgefield Park, New Jersey: Nancy Schiava Vogel, 29 (strangled) July 17, 1968, Midland Park, New Jersey: Jacalyn "Jackie" Harp, 13 (strangled) 1969: April 7, Saddle River, New Jersey: Irene Blase, 18 (strangled) July 14, Emerson, New Jersey: Denise Falasca, 15 (strangled) August 9 1974, Montvale, New Jersey: Lorraine Marie Kelly and Mary Ann Pryor (both were raped, tortured by burning, and drowned) Lorraine Marie Kelly, 17 Mary Ann Pryor, 16 December 15-16, 1977, Bergen County, New Jersey: Maryann Carr, 26 (raped, tortured, beaten, and fatally strangled) 1978: March 22-23, New York City, New York: Karen Schilt, 22 (attempted; raped and left for dead in a sewer; was rescued) October 10, Hackensack, New Jersey: Susan Geiger, 19 (raped and attempted to kill; was pregnant at the time) December 1-2, 1979, New York City, New York: The Travel Lodge Motor Inn killings (both were raped, tortured, and fatally strangled; burned and had their heads and hands cut off post-mortem): Deedah Godzari, 22 An unidentified victim, 16 1980: May 5, Hasbrouck Heights, New Jersey: Valerie Ann Street, 19 (bit and cut her breasts, beaten, and fatally strangled) May 12, Teaneck, New Jersey: Pamela Weisenfield (attempted; bit repeatedly and beaten) May 15, New York City, New York: Jean Reyner, 25 (raped, repeatedly stabbed, tortured, and fatally strangled; burned and removed both of her breasts post-mortem) May 22, Hasbrouck Heights, New Jersey: Leslie Ann O'Dell, 18 (attempted; beaten, raped, sodomized, non-fatally slashed with a knife, bit her breasts, and tortured)
For her Artist Propulsion Lab residency, composer Shelley Washington wanted to pull back the curtain on composers' lives and work. As part of that, she composed a new work for the ~Nois saxophone quartet and recorded voice memos documenting her process. The piece, Eternal Present, is about Shelley's experiences of time-blindness, and premiered on New Sounds in September. In this podcast, Shelley takes us inside her process of composing Eternal Present.
John Schaefer, host of WNYC's New Sounds, shares some of the NYC musical offerings to catch this fall.
Since 1981, Welsh musician Mike Peters has been the voice of the hit-making British band The Alarm. After the band split up in 1991, Peters wrote and released solo work, before reconstituting The Alarm in 2000, (Wikipedia.) Since being diagnosed with a rare form of leukemia in 2005 (he is also co-founder of the Love Hope Strength Foundation), Mike Peter's career has been largely determined by the cycle of remission and relapse. But to listen to The Alarm's upcoming album, pointedly called Forwards, and you'll hear a man whose songwriting is as anthemic as ever, and, yes, determinedly forward looking. Mike Peters plays some of these new songs, as well as one of the band's old hits, on acoustic baritone guitar, in-studio. (-John Schaefer) Set list: "Forwards", "Next", "The Stand" Watch "Forwards": Watch "Next": Watch "The Stand":
Curtis Stewart is a violinist, composer and arranger, and the current Artistic Director of the American Composers Orchestra. He is also the son of two professional jazz musicians, and when, at some point, he was offered the choice between composition and improvisation, he said “yes please” and took both. So on his own and with the improvising string quartet known as PubliQuartet, along with The Mighty Third Rail, Curtis Stewart plays a huge variety of music. Stewart and several musical friends: (Aaron Diehl, Eleanor Oppenheim, students from the Kaufman Music Center, Special Music School, and PubliQuartet) give just a hint of his range, performing in-studio. (-John Schaefer) Set list: Trad.: "Thalassaki Mou" Stewart: "Call, Response" with PubliQuartetTrad.: "Deep River", with PubliQuartet, with Eleanor Oppenheim, students from the Kaufman Music Center, Special Music School of Love. by Curtis Stewart
This is the Kit is the alias of British singer and guitarist Kate Stables, as well as the band she fronts. Her early albums were rooted in the long British folk/rock tradition, with later work perhaps more under the influence of indie rock. In June, she releases a new album called Careful of Your Keepers produced by Gruff Rhys (Super Furry Animals), full of big ideas and big arrangements, but it's also a very intimate, honest, and introspective set of songs. Kate plays some of them in a solo performance, in-studio. - John Schaefer Set list: “More Change”, “Stuck in a Room”, “Inside Outside” Watch “More Change”: Watch “Stuck in a Room”: Watch “Inside Outside”:
Mother and two daughters, aged 8 and 10 have died in Bed-Stuy apartment fire, investigation into the cause is underway, US Attorney's Office in Manhattan expresses concern over Rikers Island jails' dysfunction but won't take immediate action, WNYC's Kerry Shaw spends a morning with Miss Universe R'Bonney Gabriel and finally an unconventional documentary "32 Sounds" premieres at Film Forum; WNYC's John Schaefer provides insight.
The London quintet known as Ezra Collective looks like a jazz band, with their dueling horns, keys, bass and drums. But their music reflects the lively artistic ferment happening now in South London, where the sounds of Caribbean music, hip hop, and especially the Nigerian style known as Afrobeat have all become part of the scene. Ezra Collective's drummer and bandleader Femi Koleoso studied with the late, great Nigerian drummer Tony Allen, and with his brother TJ on bass, the two Koleosos form a propulsive rhythm section, but one that's full of surprises. Add in keyboardist Joe Armon-Jones, trumpeter Ife Ogunjobi, and tenor saxophonist James Mollison, and the quintet brings audiences a hybrid jazz with killah beats for dancing. - John Schaefer Set list: "Ego Killah", "No Confusion", "Belonging" Watch "Ego Killah": Watch "No Confusion": Watch "Belonging":
Join Dr. Holmes as she interviews Laura Nadine Dooley. Our show today covers Laura's identification on the spectrum later in life, navigating the school system with a son on the spectrum, challenges autistic entrepreneurs to face in creating businesses, and her many works and contributions to advocacy and music.Laura Nadine understands firsthand the struggles and triumphs of living with autism. She has spent nearly 15 years advocating for a neurodiverse educational model after she and her son were diagnosed with ASD in 2006. She developed an approach for teaching music to students with various learning profiles and recently invented a MusicBoard, inspired by facilitated communication, to make composition and music theory accessible to non-speaking students.Laura runs Enlightened Audio, an online and in-person hybrid music school with a mission to make music education accessible. In March 2020, in the middle of the Covid-19 pandemic, she moved to Canada and utilized the time of isolation to develop an eco-friendly product line of string instruments, a non-toxic violin conditioner, and a violin case that is fully compostable. As she works to launch her innovative, eco-friendly product line, she continues a 28-year-long career as a music educator. She has self-published two books, recorded various albums, and was the main subject of the biographical documentary, The Shadow Listener: A Voice for Autism, directed by John Schaefer. She also composes music for films, including the Astoria Zuker Award-winning documentary LISTEN. Laura continues to post on her blog, The Shadow Listener, at lauranadine.net, where she provides the layered perspective of someone living with autism, teaching autistic students, and raising a son with autism––what she calls a ”3 Shoes Perspective''.Laura lives in Toronto, Ontario, with her husband, Brian, and her two geriatric cats. Her now-grown children, Allana and Chey, are navigating young adult life in New York City and Toronto, respectively.
The 8-piece multicultural gypsy punk band Gogol Bordello is based here in New York, but its founder, the vocalist, songwriter and all-around ringleader Eugene Hutz, was born in Ukraine. At the best of times, Gogol Bordello wants you to dance, and party, but also to think. Now, for Ukraine and the Ukrainian diaspora, these are not the best of times, so Gogol Bordello still wants you to dance and party and think, but also to act. Hutz and company have done several benefit shows, and he even did a secret show for the troops at the front line last summer. Members of Gogol Bordello play scaled-down punk from their most recent LP Solidaritine, in-studio. - John Schaefer Set list: "Focus Coin", "My Companjera", "Fire on Ice Floe" Watch "Focus Coin": Watch "My Companjera": Watch "Fire on Ice Floe":
Join Dr. Holmes as she interviews Laura Nadine Dooley. Our show today covers Laura's identification on the spectrum later in life, navigating the school system with a son on the spectrum, challenges autistic entrepreneurs face in creating businesses, and her many works and contributions to advocacy and music.Laura Nadine understands first hand the struggles and triumphs of living with autism. She has spent nearly 15 years advocating for a neurodiverse educational model after she and her son were diagnosed with ASD in 2006. She developed an approach for teaching music to students with various learning profiles and recently invented a MusicBoard, inspired by facilitated communication, to make composition and music theory accessible to non-speaking students.Laura runs Enlightened Audio, an online and in-person hybrid music school with a mission to make music education accessible. In March of 2020, in the middle of the Covid-19 pandemic, she moved to Canada and utilized the time of isolation to develop an eco-friendly product line of string instruments, non-toxic violin conditioner, and a violin case that is fully compostable. As she works to launch her innovative, eco-friendly product line, she continues a 28-year long career as a music educator. She has self-published two books, recorded various albums, and was the main subject of the biographical documentary, The Shadow Listener: A Voice for Autism directed by John Schaefer. She also composes music for film including the Astoria Zuker Award winning documentary LISTEN. Laura continues to post on her blog The Shadow Listener at lauranadine.net where she provides the layered perspective of someone living with autism, teaching autistic students, and raising a son with autism––what she calls a ”3 Shoes Perspective''.Laura lives in Toronto, Ontario with her husband Brian and her two geriatric cats. Her now grown children, Allana and Chey, are navigating young adult life in New York City and Toronto respectively. https://enlightenedaudio.org/
New York singer/songwriter Nick Hakim has been producing records of gently psychedelic soul here for almost a decade. Occasionally, he drops the gentle psychedelia in favor of something more obviously trippy – it happens several times on his newest album, Cometa. (The title is Spanish for “kite,” although the American-born Hakim sings in English.) He is one of those singers whose voice rarely seems to rise above a whisper – and though he's probably sick of being compared to the ill-starred but still-mythic English folkie Nick Drake, Hakim's songs can sound a little like Nick Drake fronting a psychedelic soul band from the early 70s. Nick Hakim and his band perform these songs in-studio. (-John Schaefer) Set list: Vertigo, Happen, Feeling Myself
Marlon Sobol is a professional percussionist and board certified music therapist who has performed extensively throughout the world. Sobol's musical pedigree runs in the family. His father was a master clarinetist, concert producer, and educator and his mother is a concert pianist, as well as a music teacher for special learners. The younger Sobol has shared the stage with musical legends Richie Havens(Woodstock 1969), David Amram(Manchurian Candidate), and Candido Camero(2008 NEA Jazz Master). Sobol was featured on the Grammy nominated album, "Youth", and has performed at Madison Square Garden and appeared on the Carson Daly Show. He is the percussionist in Afro-Beat Jazz band “Zion 80,” whom the NY Times has hailed as a "truly soulful experience!" Sobol toured Europe performing at the Sarajevo Jazz Festival in Bosnia and at “Porgy and Bess” Jazz Club in Vienna, Austria. His work as both musician and music therapist have been featured in "DRUM!" Magazine; in "Preserving Your Memory" Magazine; in the Journal News, on Armand Dimele's, "The Positive Mind," and NPR's "Soundcheck" with John Schaefer. Marlon is currently the Executive Director of Komitoms, Inc. His live and online video programs are being used in assisted living homes and nursing centers throughout the tristate area. He is releasing a 5 song album called Geula Vision under the Moshe Sobol Band. He can be reached at 516-457-5390 or msobol@komitoms.com
John Schaefer, host of WNYC's New Sounds, discusses his show's 40th anniversary and previews some fall music events to look out for.
How many of us have a favorite song that for years we sang totally wrong? New Sounds host John Schaefer joins to talk "Mondegreens," or misheard lyrics, and takes listener calls.
John Schaefer has hosted and produced the WNYC show “New Sounds” since 1982 with an insatiable curiosity and omnivorous musical palate. This week, as he gets set to celebrate the 40th anniversary, he joins us to talk about his radio career and his adventurous musical taste. We talk about the state of radio and his most off-the-rails interview, his love of horse racing, Schaefer beer and more. Brooklyn news and views you can use: bkmag.com Email: hello@bkmag.com Follow along on Facebook: Brooklyn Magazine Twitter: @brooklynmag Instagram: @brooklynmagazine Follow Brian Braiker on Twitter: @slarkpope
Wikipedia says Bill Frisell “is an American jazz guitarist.” Well they got “American” and “guitarist” right. Frisell has indeed played jazz, but also country, rock, folk, West African, classical, and lots of less easily defined styles of music. Widely considered to be one of the great guitarists of our time, he is the subject of a new biography called Bill Frisell: Beautiful Dreamer. He plays solo acoustic in The Greene Space as part of the 2022 New York Guitar Festival. - John Schaefer Set list: Look Out for Hope, Blues from Before, Strange Meeting, Waltz For Hal Willner Watch the set:
From his beginnings in his father's band, Terry Riley and The All Stars, Gyan Riley has branched out into classical music (both his own and that of composers like John Zorn), spacey electric guitar excursions, and Eastern-influenced collaborations with a wide range of artists, including recent Grammy winner Arooj Aftab. Gyan Riley plays and improvises original pieces. From the 2022 New York Guitar Festival at The Greene Space, hear guitarist and composer Gyan Riley's post-minimalist jazz-limning new music. - John Schaefer Set list: And then… (improvisation), Sparkling Pines, Sometimes You Go Back for More, Toucher les Nuages/Appa-tango Watch "And then... (improvisation)": Watch "Sparkling Pines": Watch "Sometimes You Go Back for More": Watch "Toucher les Nuages/Appa-tango": Watch the entire show from Night 2 of the 2022 New York Guitar Festival:
Although he has a background in rock and experimental music, fingerstyle guitarist Glenn Jones is best known as a keeper of the flame of “American Primitive,” the folk-based style associated with the 20th century guitarist John Fahey. With a variety of tunings, capos, and even specially-made half-capos, Jones's country-blues music is full of unexpected textures. He plays new works from his 2022 record, Vade Mecum, in The Greene Space for the 2022 New York Guitar Festival. - John Schaefer Set list: Vade Mecum, Black & White and Gray, Each Crystal Pane of Glass, Ruthie's Farewell, John Jackson of Fairfax, Virginia Watch "Vade Mecum": Watch "Black & White and Gray": Watch "Each Crystal Pane of Glass": Watch "Ruthie's Farewell": Watch "John Jackson of Fairfax, Virginia" Watch the whole show from Night 1 of the New York Guitar Festival:
The guitarra Portuguesa, or Portuguese guitar, looks a bit like a mandolin on steroids, and has a long history of great performers – all of them men. Until Marta Pereira da Costa showed up. She plays the double six-stringed, teardrop-shaped instrument in its traditional setting – Portuguese fado music – but has also written her own music and collaborated with artists like Iranian singer Tara Tiba and Cameroonian bass player Richard Bona. Hear works by master player of the guitarra Portuguesa, Marta Pereira da Costa, together with pianist Alexandre Diniz, performed live in The Greene Space, for the 2022 New York Guitar Festival. - John Schaefer Watch "Terra": Watch "Verde Anos/Summertime": Watch "Encontro": Watch "Minha Alma": Watch "Meditando /Fado Lopes" : Watch "Alfonsina y el Mar”, “Dia de Feira": Watch the entire concert from Night 4 of 2022's New York Guitar Festival from The Greene Space:
From the 2022 New York Guitar Festival at The Greene Space, hear Malian guitar virtuoso Vieux Farka Touré. The Malian singer and guitarist's career began with collaborations with two of West Africa's most celebrated musicians: the kora player Toumani Diabate and Vieux's own dad, the famous guitarist Ali Farka Touré. Since then he has worked with American singer Julia Easterlin and popular Israeli musician Idan Raichel, in addition to releasing five solo studio albums rooted in the sounds and rhythms of West African blues. His latest record, Les Racines (2022), addresses unrest in his home country, and marks a return to his roots – the style of his father's playing. He and percussionist Adama Kone perform in The Greene Space. (-John Schaefer) Set list: "Philipa", "Fafa", "Ali", "Tamala", "Ngala Kaourene", "Djaraby"Watch "Philipa": Watch "Fafa", "Ali", "Tamala": Watch "Ngala Kaourene": Watch "Djaraby":
Uncarcerated shifts the narrative and breaks the stigma of incarceration and nobody does that better than John Schaefer. Deeply insightful and keenly self aware this is a brilliant analysis of everything wrong with addiction services and the criminal justice system and everything right with someone fighting for the ives of himself and his friends. Become a sponsor of Uncarcerated so we can get these stories out to as many people as possible. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/leigh-scott5/support
Believe it or not, 2022 is already more than halfway over. As a result, many are reflecting on the best albums that have already been released this year, what sounds and trends have been popular, as well as look forward to what projects we should expect to hear throughout the rest of the year. Plus, as we reach the peak of the heat of summer, everyone's clamoring for that summer anthem you hear everywhere you go. Joining us for a music Review/Preview is WNYC's own John Schaefer. *This segment is guest-hosted by Kerry Nolan.
WQXR's Artist Propulsion Lab is the station's program to support emerging and mid-career artists by providing them with opportunities to perform and commission work, and to take advantage of the station's platforms, like this podcast. Starting today, and continuing every other Thursday, join this year's class of artists as they explore a topic important to them. In this episode, violinist and composer Layale Chaker is joined by composer and pianist Fabian Alamazan, and paleobotanist David Lentz, of the University of Cincinnati, for a conversation about music and environmental stewardship, moderated by New Sounds' John Schaefer. Featured Recordings: "The Songs of the Forgotten" composed and performed by Fabian Almazan. Available at Bandcamp "Le Courlis cendré," from Catalogue d'oiseaux by Olivier Messaien, performed by Pierre-Laurent Aimard. Available at Pentatone "Tingo Maria," from Milagros by Gabriela Lena Frank, performed by the Willamette Valley Chamber Music Festival. Available from Bright Shiny Things
John Schaefer, host of WNYC's New Sounds, talks about what music events and concerts to look forward to this summer — especially outdoors, as the city is dealing with yet another wave of COVID cases. Hear about some of the events at BRIC Celebrate Brooklyn, Sunset Wednesdays at Wave Hill in the Bronx, Forest Hills Stadium in Queens and the Rite of Summer Music Festival on Governors Island.
Given the recent news of multiple shootings in the last few weeks, many of us are grieving. And grief and music go hand in hand. WNYC's John Schaefer joins to discuss why music can be useful in hard times.
Kae Tempest is a gifted wordsmith and performer; their two previous albums were both nominated for the Mercury Prize. Their 2022 album, The Line is a Curve, addresses struggles with mental health, as well as Kae's own journey with their non-binary identity, and features collaborations with some of the South London creative community. Tempest offers live performances of music from the record, and spoke with host John Schaefer in London about the new album. - Caryn Havlik Set list: “More Pressure” “Salt Coast” Listen to the entire New Sounds Show with Kae Tempest, from London:
Caitlin and Don are BACK with our season 1 finale as we review the jingle for Professional Fire Restoration in Albany, New York! Yes, we realize we left you hanging after episode 9 oh so many months ago, but we're making it up to you with one last episode this season featuring an interview with John Schaefer of Schafer Media & Marketing, who helped develop the aforementioned jingle. We'll also hit on Don's “history of disturbing behavior” and answer Caitlin's burning question “Who IS Pete Seger?” before previewing season two. All this and more on the season finale of Welcome to the Jingle!
We close out the first Series/Season of the Jamming! Fanzine Podcast with an interview conducted by James Endeacott, for Soho Radio's Morning Glory show, with Jamming! founder Tony Fletcher. The conversation traces the full story of the fanzine that grew up, from schoolboy beginnings to corporate break up. Between them, they discuss The Clash, The Jam, the DIY Records Scene, fanzines, regionalism, Crass, reggae, Smiley Culture, the Rezillos, the Undertones, Billy Bragg, the Dead Kennedys, R.E.M., Robert Wyatt, The Smiths, The Fall, politics, poetry, synth pop, and much much more. James is a former member of Loop, a former A&R Director with Rough Trade, and author of his own memoir The Tall Short Stories of James Endeacott, published by Rough Trade Books.Tony Fletcher will be appearing at the following cities to discuss THE BEST OF JAMMING! SELECTIONS & STORIES FROM THE FANZINE THAT GREW UP 1977-1986.Weds Feb 23rd, LONDON, CAMDEN TOWN ROCK n' 'ROLL BOOK CLUB, in conversation with Tony GleedThurs Feb 24th, BRIGHTON, RIALTO THEATRE, in conversation with Guy PrattFri FEB 25th, HASTINGS ELECTRIC PALACE CINEMA, in conversation with DJ Wendy May following a screening of the movie ROUGH CUT & READY DUBBED.Tues Mar 29th, NEW YORK CITY, BOWERY ELECTRIC, in conversation with John Schaefer.For more information on all of these events, including times and ticket prices, visit https://www.facebook.com/theTonyFletcher/eventsJames Endeacott can be found at https://twitter.com/jamesendeacottTony Fletcher can be found at https://tonyfletcher.net/The Best of Jamming!: Selections and Stories from the Fanzine That Grew Up 1977-86 is published by Omnibus PressOmnibusPress.com 'The Jamming! Fanzine Podcast Theme' is by Noel Fletcher. Editing assistance and art by Greg Morton.https://shows.acast.com/the-jamming-fanzine-podcast Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Thanks to legislation passed in 2018, around 400,000 sound recordings made before 1923 are now available in the public domain. These include songs from Ethel Waters, Sophia Tucker, Al Jolson, and Fanny Brice, as well as opera and orchestral recordings from the likes of Enrico Caruso and Sergei Rachmaninoff. WNYC's John Schaefer, host of New Sounds and Soundcheck, shares some highlights.
Kevin Davis invites John Schaefer from Schaefer Recognition Group to the QLE Podcast. They discuss several factors that influence employee retention, such as your company culture, and how a recognition program that rewards your employees for their hard work can help increase your employee retention. You can find out more information about Schaefer Recognition Group by visiting www.schaeferrecognitiongroup.com, or you can email John directly at: john@schaeferrecognitiongroup.com ----- To learn more about how Quick Lube Expert can help you, visit: www.quicklubeexpert.com To learn more about what M. Kevin Davis has to offer, visit: www.mkevindavis.com Sign up for your FREE Discovery Assessment at: www.quicklubeexpert.com/discovery-signup To learn more about Phillips 66 Lubricants and Kendall Motor Oil, visit: www.phillips66lubricants.com, and www.kendallmotoroil.com Find out more about the Phillips 66 Shield High Mileage Booster: www.shieldbooster.com Find out more about the Kendall GT-1 High Mileage Booster: www.kendallhmb.com
WNYC's John Schaefer brings us the sounds of Christmas from around the world, from regional adaptations of Western jingles and carols, to the sounds that suggest "Christmas" to global audiences, the way warm strings and crooners do for American audiences. Here are John's picks, in order of appearance: Grupo Vocal Sampling - "We Wish You a Merry Christmas/Rumba Navidene"New Birth Brass Band - "Santa's Second Line"Bela Fleck and Huun Huur Tu - "Jingle Bells"Concord Nkabinde - "Sizalelwe Indodana"Joseph Spence - "Santa Claus Is Coming To Town"Hania Rani, Dobrawa Czocher - "Jezus Malusieńki"Ensemble Choral Du Bout Du Monde – "Nedeleg"Baraban - "La Santa Dell'oriente"
Lou Reed. Dr. John. Bruce Springsteen. John Cale. Levon Helm. Garland Jeffreys has collaborated with all of them, and his gravelly voice, roots-rock DNA, and trenchant writing has always channeled the best bits of each of them. A recording artist since the 1960s, Brooklyn native Jeffreys has had more career ups (and downs) than most artists can dream of today, but he's riding yet another wave of creativity and energy. His loose and rollicking 2013 album Truth Serum was lauded by critics and fans. He was a 2015 inductee into the New York Blues Hall of Fame, recognizing just one facet of his kaleidoscopic musical persona. All the late-period vigor and recognition has him revisiting one of his earliest successes, 1977's Ghost Writer. A frothing cauldron of, yes, blues, but also soul, funk, Exile-era Stones rock—and an inspired dose of reggae—Ghost Writer revealed a burgeoning, observant poet of the streets as well as a sharp-eared pop chameleon. Garland Jeffreys visits the studio to talk to host John Schaefer about the NYC that inspired Ghost Writer, and to play a handful of the album's standout tracks.
Since forming back around the turn of this century, the New Pornographers have consistently been one of indie rock's top attractions - reliable purveyors of big hooks, anthemic choruses, and Technicolor orchestrations. The band is a supergroup of sorts, with a mutable lineup of singers and instrumentalists, but the first among equals has always been vocalist and songwriter Carl Newman. He joins John Schaefer to talk about the band's 2017 album, called Whiteout Conditions. AND, some of the band plays live in this session from the Archives.
Chris Heath is a writer for The Atlantic, GQ and Vanity Fair, and author of several books. Russell Young is a visual artist with a background in music photography, sleeve design and video directing. Both got their professional start with Jamming! in the early 1980s.Thirty-five years after its demise, Russell and Chris joined Jamming!'s former publisher/editor Tony Fletcher in New York City, where all three have lived at one time or another, for a long-overdue reunion. The trio sat down with the new book, The Best of Jamming!, and various back issues, to discuss their favorite articles and photo sessions, exchange anecdotes, and consider what they learned in the scrappy fanzine days of Jamming! that helped them hone their craft as professionals.Topics covered include:Photographing the Genius That Is MorrisseyChris on the infamous Frankie Goes To Hollywood incidentGeorge Best the BullfighterNatalie Merchant's all-in personalityBronski Beat's pioneering sexual personaThe camaraderie at Jamming!How shooting covers for Lloyd Cole & Cocteau Twins led Russell Young to George Michael & the Faith album coverChris on the 'normality' of visiting George Michael's house for teaInterviewing/photographing Virginia Astley, Inca Babies, Andy White, UB40, Everything But The Girl and more.Why Russell, Tony & Chris all moved to the USA.EVENTSTony Fletcher will be appearing to discuss The Best of Jamming!: Selections & Stories From the Fanzine that Grew Up 1977-86 at the following events: Saturday Dec 11th, 2pm, The Golden Notebook presents at Maria's in Bearsville/Woodstock NYIn conversation with author and Chronogram Arts Editor, Peter Aaron. Tuesday January 18th, 6pm, Bowery Electric, Manhattan.In conversation with WNYC Soundcheck's John Schaefer. Wednesday February 23rd, 7:30pm, the Rock ‘n' Roll Book Club at the Dublin Castle, London.In conversation with RNR Book Club's Tony Gleed. Friday February 25th, 7.30pm, the Electric Palace, Hastings.Featuring a screening of Rough Cut and Ready Dubbed and a conversation with Wendy May.For more on these events visithttps://tonyfletcher.net/book/the-best-of-jamming/https://www.facebook.com/theTonyFletcher/eventsThe Best of Jamming!: Selections and Stories from the Fanzine That Grew Up 1977-86 is published by Omnibus PressTonyFletcher.netOmnibusPress.com 'The Jamming! Fanzine Podcast Theme' is by Noel Fletcher. Editing assistance and art by Greg Morton.https://shows.acast.com/the-jamming-fanzine-podcast Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Episode 227 - This week we kicked off a new series on Ethics in Sports. We are welcoming coaching panels and giving them ethical scenarios to see how they would handle situational moral dilemmas. Our first panel this week included veteran volleyball player, coach and radio host Kelly Richardson and veteran boys' basketball coach at Logan-Rogersville, John Schaefer. These coaches did a tremendous job analyzing and dissecting our scenarios. I would want my kids to play for either one of them! Next week we continue our series: Ethics in Sports.
Multiple Grammy-winner and longtime UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador Angélique Kidjo pulls together multiple generations, collaborating with global pop stars Burna Boy and Yemi Alade among others, in addition to focusing on our connection to the natural world for her latest album, Mother Nature. Through a signature combination of West African music, jazz, and funk, and using her incredible voice as instrument, Kidjo asks us to honor Mother Nature, and hopes that one lesson that people might learn from the pandemic is how to better care for one another. As she and host John Schaefer chat, Kidjo gives props to her collaborators, many of them from younger generations, and also speaks to being the vocalist in Philip Glass' Symphony No. 12, (Lodger) based on David Bowie's album. Even with no audience, Angélique Kidjo's larger-than-life stage presence captivates as she talks about having the luxury of living out her passion. She performs live with her band, from The Greene Space in advance of a Mother Nature concert event at Carnegie Hall on Friday, Nov. 5. - Caryn Havlik Watch "Africa -One of a Kind”: Watch "Take It Or Leave It": Watch "Mother Nature":
In this episode, we are joined once again by John Schaefer who was last with us on episode 39. This conversation hinges on John's lifelong pursuit of being Chief of Police, which he eventually attained and then subsequently lost. John is candid about the sacrifices made to obtain the career he had and the impact getting and then losing the position had on his family and himself. He also talks about how he looks at life after reaching retirement age and how he thinks we as a nation have gotten that wrong. This episode has lots of great life lessons and wisdom, don't miss it! Big thank you to My Epic and Facedown Records for the use of their song "Hail" in the podcast. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dz2RZThURTUBuy us a coffee! https://www.buymeacoffee.com/TheFireYouCarrySupport the podcast and buy your coffee from Fire Dept. Coffee, use our code thefireyoucarry at checkout. https://www.firedeptcoffee.com/Buy a shirt!https://thefireyoucarry.threadless.com/Join our Discord group!https://discord.gg/2AyPQSzZ6d
[REBROADCAST FROM June 5, 2020] Last summer, amid historic racial justice protests and the first citywide curfew since World War II, Alison hosted an evening special as part of our "WNYC At Curfew" coverage. John Schaefer joined to discuss protest music and how it has been used in social movements across our history, and even also brought a list of his favorite tracks to play. This segment was picked by our Producer Zach Gottehrer-Cohen.
With 38 years in law enforcement that culminated with time served as the Chief of Police in the cities of Placentia and San Marino John has a great deal of life experience to draw from. In addition to that he also became the City Manager of San Marino and now serves as one of the Shepards at EV Free Church in Fullerton. More important than all of that though is his faith, his long-standing marriage, and his children. In this episode, we talk to John about losing a fellow officer early in his career, how that has impacted him to this day. We explore how he feels he could have better managed to care for his family while pursuing his career and how policing is different today vs 30 years ago. John has a tremendous amount of wisdom, this is a great conversation, hopefully one of many. John Schaefer's Websitehttps://johntschaefer.com/about/Podcast Discordhttps://discord.gg/rkDa9Ae27q
John Schaefer, host of WNYC's New Sounds, talks about what music events and concerts to look forward to this summer. Concerts John mentioned: Chicago at the PNC Bank Arts Center in Holmdel NJ on 7/15 Ari Lennox at Celebrate Brooklyn on 7/31 Funkadelic at Summer Stage on 6/27) Rite of Summer Music Festival on Governor’s Island, 6/19
Old Sea Brigade is the work of Nashville-based, Georgia-born musician Ben Cramer, who makes atmospheric Nashville-informed indie folk, infused with 80s synthpop and jangly guitars. "Cramer’s feathery vocals dovetail nicely with the guitars’ indie-rock-in-the-aughts sound," and the melodies are enhanced with warm synths and hazy production (John Schaefer). Old Sea Brigade plays songs from his new album Motivational Speaking, remotely.
Today we’re talking about a serial killer that used the power of his Florida sheriff's deputy badge to kill. His early life is filled with reports of a creeper doing creeper things. That never stopped into adulthood, when he bragged about killing more than 30 girls and women. This is the Killer Cop John Schaefer.Submit future episode stories: 10minutemurder@gmail.comSubscribe and share 10 Minute Murder with your friends that would be into a brief and bingeable true crime podcast like this one. Connect on social media to know when new episodes are released. https://facebook.com/10MMpodcast https://twitter.com/10minutemurder https://www.instagram.com/10minutemurder/
After being completely shut down since the pandemic began one year ago, live music venues are on the cusp of re-opening. John Schaefer, host of WNYC's New Sounds and Gig Alerts, talks about which local venues are reopening soon, how they're doing it safely and what the summer music scene might look like. Venues expected to reopen, in some form, in April: Barbès Brooklyn City Winery The Shed Park Avenue Armory Lincoln Center
Elizabeth Ziman is a classically-trained pianist, singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist who leads the long-running indie band Elizabeth And The Catapult. Her new album is sincerely, e – a wry, poignant, affecting response to the pandemic, mostly centered around her home’s piano (which happens to belong to Rob Moose, violinist, arranger, and a member of yMusic.) For the podcast, Ziman talks about seeking more human connection, and the double-edged sword of being able to interact with fans or her mom more than ever - yet all of that interaction is through screens held in her hands, and leaves a feeling of emptiness. She walks us through the process of digitally cloning herself as a multi-instrumentalist for another tune, and the need to make the record sound “as human as possible” with a feel “of her home”, as well as collaborating from afar with longtime Elizabeth And The Catapult producer Dan Molad. With a raw, rough-around-the-edges feel to certain songs which may bring to mind Fiona Apple’s recent Fetch the Bolt Cutters, and with a Parisian café intimacy in others (melodica plus clarinet and it’s really not a stretch), Elizabeth Ziman showcases her “effective and affecting songwriting” (John Schaefer) and plays some of her new songs remotely. – Caryn Havlik Set list: “Together, Alone”; “Pop the Placebo”; “The Birds and the Bees”; “The Muse”
Gary Clark Jr. got his first guitar for Christmas back when he was just 12 years old and the Austin, Texas native has been playing around his hometown ever since. But with a breakout performance at Eric Clapton's Crossroads Guitar Festival in 2010, Clark Jr. netted not only a manager, but a recording deal with Warner Bros. In the time since Gary Clark Jr.'s 2012 major label debut, Blak And Blu, he's played with Mick Jagger and blues legend B.B. King for the President at the White House, opened for The Rolling Stones, and played with Alicia Keys and The Roots. That album also scored big at his home town Austin Music Awards, winning eight awards, including musician and album of the year. He's since released both 2015's The Story of Sonny Boy Slim and the 2019 album, This Land, which ranges from Delta blues to dub reggae, Stax-style soul anthems and Prince-like epics. Gary Clark Jr.'s scorching and gritty blues rock sound frequently draws comparisons to guitar legends like Jimi Hendrix. He plays an acoustic set in-studio, and talks with host John Schaefer about growing up in Austin, why he doesn't play a Stratocaster, and the inspiration behind his song "Bright Lights." (From the Archives, 2013.) Set List: "When My Train Pulls In" "Bright Lights" "Next Door Neighbor Blues"
In today's episode of Sound Off I talk with composer, singer and instrumentalist Nathalie Joachim. She's a Julliard-trained flutist, half of the flute & electronics duo Flutronix and creator of the Grammy-nominated Fanm d’Ayiti featuring the Spektral Quartet, an album described by WNYC’s New Sounds host John Schaefer as "a kind of chamber folk electronic celebration of the voices of Haiti.” Learn about how a listening station at Tower Records informs her unclassifiable sounds as much as both her conservatory training and her Haitian grandmother have, as well as spend time with some of her music. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Trumpeter, composer, and educator Wynton Marsalis is arguably the most famous jazz musician of our time – though few would actually argue the point. He’s won multiple Grammys and in 1997 became the first jazz composer to win the Pulitzer Prize for his piece Blood On The Fields, a work about two slaves and their difficult journey to freedom. Born into one of the great families of New Orleans jazz, Marsalis has been closely tied to New York, and particularly to Lincoln Center, since the late 80s. He is the longtime visionary force behind Jazz At Lincoln Center; and his work has included both diverse live performance projects and a deep, ongoing concern with education, especially with bringing jazz and classical music to children. In partnership with Gothamist and their Future NYC series, host John Schaefer consults with Wynton Marsalis as he considers arts possibilities in the after-times, touching on full participation and the ways to question institutional curation. Marsalis would like to see increased engagement with the arts - inviting folks to participate, creating the will to participate, and building community. Practically speaking, that might mean lowering ticket prices, offering classes and encouraging curiosity. Wynton Marsalis shares his ideas for this Soundcheck Podcast. Jazz at Lincoln Center (JALC) is hosting its first virtual free Summer Jazz Academy now through August 1. Students of any level (ages 12 and up) can go to jazz.org for more information. Cecile McLorin Salvant, Wynton, Nduduzo Makhatini and more heavy hitters are providing free classes throughout.
"Yasmin Williams reinvents the guitar with a dazzling array of two-handed techniques, hammering, bowing, and percussion effects – but all in the service of the music. Music that dances, and, in its own way, sings." (John Schaefer) Guitarist, composer, and songwriter Yasmin Williams is both a multi-instrumentalist and multi-tasker. She’s a fingerstyle lap-tapping guitar player who sits and rests the guitar in her lap, to make the guitar into a table on which she sometimes mounts a kalimba; her distinct style also leaves her tap shoe-wearing feet available for her to make beats. Williams also plays banjo, bass, kora, and as she puts it - “anything with strings.” Her keyboard-like percussive approach might have come about from playing (and eventually beating) the Guitar Hero 2 video game. She then got a “real” electric guitar, figured out how to master it her own way, and learned about other guitar heroes – Elizabeth Cotten, Sister Rosetta Tharpe, Eddie Van Halen, and Jimi Hendrix. Yasmin Williams’ wide variety of influences also includes hip-hop, classic blues, and a degree in music theory and composition from NYU. During the conversation, Williams explains that her use of extended techniques: tapping the guitar from above with both hands, playing the strings with a cello bow, hammering with what looks like a Patellar reflex test hammer in a dulcimer-like fashion, a pick that she sometimes wears on her thumb, the hammer-ons and pull-offs, and beat-making on the guitar (and with her feet) – are all in the service of her songwriting. Her next full-length album, Urban Driftwood, both a beautifully melodic and, of course, percussive affair, is due out in the fall of 2020. Yasmin Williams shares her latest songs without words – featuring all her multi-tasking limbs - remotely, from her home in Virginia. - (Caryn Havlik) Set LIst: "Through the Woods" "Juvenescence" "Restless Heart" Unwind by Yasmin Williams
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English singer-songwriter and podcaster Jessie Ware's profile has grown very quickly into stardom in just a few years. With her new album, What's Your Pleasure?, due this June 2020, we revisit a studio visit from 2014, on the release of her second album. Written in three different cities - -New York, Los Angeles, and her home in London- Jessie Ware's Tough Love showcased Ware's skill as a songwriter and singer, while maintaining her South London charm amid the spotlight. In a conversation with host John Schaefer, Ware gives some behind-the-scenes stories about making Tough Love -- from collaborating with Miguel, to writing a song with Ed Sheeran in 30 minutes, to hanging out with Benny Blanco's bulldog and eating, a lot.
Ol' Blue Eyes. The Chairman of the Board. Frank Sinatra has been called a lot of things—not all of them flattering—but there's no denying his stature as a true American icon. Oscar-winning documentarian Alex Gibney turns his lens on the singer for the film, which came out in 2015, in time for the singer's 100th birthday. Sinatra: All Or Nothing At All chronicles the unlikely rise of the kid from Hoboken, through his peerless celebrity years, and centers around Sinatra's 1971 "Retirement Concert" in Los Angeles. (Sinatra would make his "return" to performing a scant two years later.) Gibney tells Soundcheck host John Schaefer that the film uses loads of rare interview audio to make Frank "the undependable but very charming narrator of his own story." And what a story. The four hour film captures the man's many contradictions, from the mob-fraternizing playboy who was friendly with the Kennedys, to his progressive ideas about race relations. "I was interested in this character who came from a rough and tumble place, and actually stood for a lot of pretty important things," says Gibney. Through it all, it's the songs—and their sometimes sweeping, sometimes understated performances—that best tell the story of Frank Sinatra. "In the great moments of his career—the Capitol years are really my favorite—he is embodying those songs, he is a character who’s grown up with America, with all its contradictions. So to me he’s a tremendously important historical figure." Sinatra: All or Nothing At All (2015), is available on Amazon Prime.
John Schaefer, host of WNYC's Soundcheck and New Sounds, joins us to remember Kraftwerk's Florian Schneider and Little Richard, two musicians who changed the course of Western pop music and recently died.
David Biedenbender is an Assistant Professor of Composition at Michigan State and a member of the Blue Dot Collective. He joins the show to talk about his music and share his thoughts about composing for band. Topics: David’s background growing up in Michigan and learning music by watching his mother play organ, and how a high school band director gave him his first big break that led to him studying music. Studying at Central Michigan University and how he didn’t write a single band piece while studying with David Gillingham The story of how he wrote Melodius Thunk and bringing in popular elements such as jazz and rock and roll into the concert band medium. Influences on his compositional style, a conversation about development in band music, and why he self-publishes his music and distributes it through Murphy Music Press. Links: David Biedenbender Murphy Music Press Biedenbender: Melodious Thunk Beidenbender: Cyclotron Abide With Me Biography: David Biedenbender (b. 1984, Waukesha, Wisconsin) is a composer, conductor, performer, educator, and interdisciplinary collaborator. David’s music has been described as “simply beautiful” [twincities.com], “striking” and “brilliantly crafted” [Times Argus] and is noted for its “rhythmic intensity” [NewMusicBox] and “stirring harmonies” [Boston Classical Review]. “Modern, venturesome, and inexorable…The excitement, intensity, and freshness that characterizes Biedenbender’s music hung in the [air] long after the last note was played” [Examiner.com]. He has written music for the concert stage as well as for dance and multimedia collaborations, and his work is often influenced by his diverse musical experiences in rock and jazz bands as an electric bassist, in wind, jazz, and New Orleans-style brass bands as a euphonium, bass trombone, and tuba player, and by his study of Indian Carnatic music. His present creative interests include working with everyone from classically trained musicians to improvisers, acoustic chamber music to large ensembles, and interactive electronic interfaces to live brain data. David has had the privilege of collaborating with many renowned performers and ensembles, including Alarm Will Sound, the PRISM Saxophone Quartet, the Stenhammar String Quartet (Sweden), the New Jersey Symphony Orchestra, the Aspen Contemporary Ensemble, the United States Navy Band, the Philharmonie Baden-Baden (Germany), VocalEssence, the Eastman Wind Ensemble, the Music from Copland House Ensemble, Detroit Symphony Orchestra bass trombonist Randall Hawes and pianist Kathryn Goodson, the Juventas New Music Ensemble, the Washington Kantorei, the Atlantic Chamber Ensemble, the Boston New Music Initiative, Ann Arbor Dance Works, Composer’s Inc. (San Francisco), and the Grand Valley State New Music Ensemble. dsc_3680Recent recognition for his work includes two ASCAP Morton Gould Young Composer Awards (2011, 2012) and the 2012 Suzanne and Lee Ettelson Composers Award. His music has been heard in many diverse venues, including Carnegie Hall, Gaudeamus Muziekweek/TivoliVredenberg (Netherlands), Symphony Space (New YorkCity), the Smithsonian Museum, the German Embassy (Washington, DC), the Antonín Dvořák Museum (Prague), the Old First Church (San Francisco), Harris Hall (Aspen Music Festival), the Interlochen Center for the Arts, Hill Auditorium (Ann Arbor, MI), the University of Michigan Museum of Art, as well as at numerous universities and conservatories, and it has been broadcast on NPR stations around the country, including on WNYC’s Soundcheck with John Schaefer and on Center Stage from Wolf Trap. David’s music can also be heard on many commercially available recordings, including recent albums by the U.S. Navy Band, Akropolis Reed Quintet, H2 Saxophone Quartet, Khemia Ensemble, PUBLIQuartet, and the North Texas Wind Symphony. Recent and upcoming commissions and projects include works for yMusic, the New York Virtuoso Singers, the Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music, San Francisco Symphony principal trombonist Tim Higgins, the Albany (NY) Symphony Orchestra, the Edge Ensemble, the Donald Sinta Saxophone Quartet, the Akropolis Reed Quintet, Kevin Sedatole and the Michigan State University Wind Symphony, and pianist Jeannette Fang. In addition to composing, David is a dedicated teacher. He is Assistant Professor of Composition in the College of Music at Michigan State University, and he previously taught composition and theory at Boise State University, Eastern Michigan University, Oakland University, Madonna University, the Music in the Mountains Conservatory, and the Interlochen Arts Camp. He has also taught an interdisciplinary course in creativity and collaboration in the Living Arts program at the University of Michigan. His composition students have achieved regional and national recognition for their creative work, including numerous awards and acceptance into renowned summer music festivals and undergraduate and graduate composition programs. He received the Doctor of Musical Arts and Master of Music degrees in composition from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor and the Bachelor of Music degree in composition and theory from Central Michigan University. He has also studied at the Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study in Uppsala, Sweden with Anders Hillborg and Steven Stucky, the Aspen Music Festival and School with Syd Hodkinson, and in Mysore, India where he studied South Indian Carnatic music. His primary musical mentors include Stephen Rush, Evan Chambers, Kristin Kuster, Michael Daugherty, Bright Sheng, Erik Santos, Christopher Lees, David R. Gillingham, José Luis-Maurtúa, John Williamson, and Mark Cox.
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In our third and final episode of The Love Traverse mini-series we explore how couples have fostered their love through the decades. Marriage counselor Hannah Eaton returns to illuminate the issues couples face and the positive characteristics of long-term partnerships. Mountain guides Adam and Caroline George describe how outdoor pursuits have shaped their 13 year marriage and parenting. After 20 years together, heli ski guides Adrienne and John Schaefer use communication and balancing interdependence to thrive. And snowboarding legends Bonnie and Jim Zellers, who’ve been together since 1984, exemplify how a relationship grows richer and more fulfilling over time. Love, as it turns out, does not have an expiration date. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
You may not have heard of the Egyptian king Akhnaten, but the young pharaoh helped shape modern religion as we know it. His revolutionary efforts to shift Egypt away from worshiping many gods to worshiping just one paved the way for monotheism and the major Judeo-Christian faiths. His desire to remake the world is the subject of Philip Glass's entrancing opera. In this episode, host Rhiannon Giddens and her guests reflect on Akhnaten’s "Hymn to the Sun," an aria drawn from an ancient text of devotion. Akhnaten expresses his adoration of the sun and asserts himself as a prophet – a vision of his own power that eventually led to his downfall. At the end of the show, you'll hear countertenor Anthony Roth Costanzo sing the complete “Hymn to the Sun” from the Metropolitan Opera stage. The Guests Countertenor Anthony Roth Costanzo previously sang the role of Akhnaten at English National Opera in London and LA Opera, and he now stars as the titular pharaoh at the Metropolitan Opera. Even though he has lived with the character for nearly four years, he still hasn't decided whether he sees Akhnaten as a visionary or cult leader. But that doesn't stop him from wearing an Eye of Horus necklace. Kara Cooney is a professor of Egyptian Art and Architecture at UCLA who spent years as an archaeologist in Egypt. At dig sites and in her research, Cooney has been able to uncover some moments of Akhnaten’s life, which still largely remains a mystery. Even she doesn’t quite understand her journey into Egyptology, she has always understood the world best through the lens of antiquity. Karen Kamensek is conducting Akhnaten at the Metropolitan Opera. A self-proclaimed Glass groupie, she is our first guest who's been mentored by a show's original composer. The world-renowned conductor pays it forward by leading a number of youth orchestras. John Schaefer is the host of the WNYC radio program New Sounds. For more than 30 years, he has promoted the work of contemporary composers and performers. In 1984, he jumped at the chance to premiere Akhnaten on the radio. Special appearance by Rev. Paula Stone Williams, a pastor and LGBTQ advocate. As a transgender woman, Williams uses her experiences to foster more compassion in the world.
A choral conversation with William Baker and John Schaefer. Hosted by Patrick Neas.
Named for an exhibition in the Tate Modern, Love Fame Tragedy is how Matthew “Murph” Murphy, frontman of the indie-pop band The Wombats is scratching an itch to explore new musical avenues. Murph, plus a bunch of guests, including members of The Pixies, Alt-J, The Killers, and Soundgarden, are trying to find as many new ideas and do as many new things as possible, and having there be no politics about it. The band's synth-pop confessional sound is full of "ridiculously catchy choruses and unexpected turns of phrase" (-John Schaefer), and works in electro-blues and pop as well. Love Fame Tragedy joins us in-studio to play some of these tunes. Watch the session here:
Marlon Sobol is a professional percussionist and board certified music therapist who has performed extensively throughout the world. Sobol’s musical pedigree runs in the family. His father was a master clarinetist, concert producer, and educator and his mother is a concert pianist, as well as a music teacher for special learners. The younger Sobol has shared the stage with musical legends Richie Havens(Woodstock 1969), David Amram(Manchurian Candidate), and Candido Camero(2008 NEA Jazz Master). Sobol was featured on the Grammy nominated album, "Youth", and has performed at Madison Square Garden and appeared on the Carson Daly Show. He is the percussionist in Afro-Beat Jazz band “Zion 80,” whom the NY Times has hailed as a "truly soulful experience!" Sobol just recently toured Europe performing at the Sarajevo Jazz Festival in Bosnia and at “Porgy and Bess” Jazz Club in Vienna, Austria. His work as both musician and music therapist have been featured in "DRUM!" Magazine; in "Preserving Your Memory" Magazine; in the Journal News, on Armand Dimele's, "The Positive Mind," and NPR's "Soundcheck" with John Schaefer. Marlon is currently the Director of Music Therapy Services at the Ambassador of Scarsdale and an adjunct professor at Suny New Paltz. His non for profit organization, Komitoms, Inc just recently was the recipient of a grant from the Alzheimers Foundation of America. OFFICIAL LINKS: Website: komitoms.com
In this episode, we are kicking off a series on Sports Psychology. We assembled a panel of coaches to take us through their techniques for mentally training athletes for peak performance. We discussed visualization, using the mind's eye, goal setting, dealing with anxiety, fear of failure, and many more. They gave out some excellent techniques and advice for athletes and coaches. We even talked about coaches holding their composure (which is not easy). My thanks to the talented panel that joined us including Coach Holly Hesse with Missouri State University Softball, Coach John Schaefer with Logan-Rogersville Boys Basketball, and Track and Field legend Coach Don Keeton.
Are some ideas so dangerous we shouldn’t even talk about them? That question brought Radiolab’s senior editor, Pat Walters, to a subject that at first he thought was long gone: the measuring of human intelligence with IQ tests. Turns out, the tests are all around us. In the workplace. The criminal justice system. Even the NFL. And they’re massive in schools. More than a million US children are IQ tested every year. We begin Radiolab Presents: “G” with a sentence that stopped us all in our tracks: In the state of California, it is off-limits to administer an IQ test to a child if he or she is Black. That’s because of a little-known case called Larry P v Riles that in the 1970s … put the IQ test itself on trial. With the help of reporter Lee Romney, we investigate how that lawsuit came to be, where IQ tests came from, and what happened to one little boy who got caught in the crossfire. This episode was reported and produced by Lee Romney, Rachael Cusick and Pat Walters. Music by Alex Overington. Fact-checking by Diane Kelly. Special thanks to Elie Mistal, Chenjerai Kumanyika, Amanda Stern, Nora Lyons, Ki Sung, Public Advocates, Michelle Wilson, Peter Fernandez, John Schaefer. Lee Romney’s reporting was supported in part by USC’s Center for Health Journalism. Radiolab’s “G” is supported in part by Science Sandbox, a Simons Foundation initiative dedicated to engaging everyone with the process of science. Support Radiolab today at Radiolab.org/donate.
There is a world of incredible music out there, most of which we can access through our phones, and yet our kids are obsessed with jingles about shark families and cats flushing toilets. Joshua David Stein and Jason Gay lament this sad state of affairs while seeking advice from WNYC radio host, author, and dad, John Schaefer. It turns out, you can't make your kids like anything, but there are ways to introduce them to new sounds (without them realizing you're doing it). Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Amid an atmosphere of intense political partisanship, a rare and remarkable thing happened in Washington this week: Both parties came together to solve a problem — in this instance, in the music world. With music streaming on the rise, lawmakers hammered out legislation that will update copyright laws and create a new licensing system for streaming services in an effort to bring the music business into the 21st Century. The legislation, known as the Music Modernization Act, (renamed the Hatch-Goodlatte Music Modernization Act), passed both the House and Senate unanimously and will become law once the president signs it. This week on Money Talking, Charlie Herman speaks with John Schaefer, host of WNYC’s New Sounds, about how the new law will work and how it will affect music-listening consumers. Schaefer also discusses how artists and labels are trying to boost the number of plays on streaming services in order to score a number one hit on the Billboard charts.
Attorney John Schaefer, recently appeared as a featured guest on the Impact Makers Radio Show, “Let's Talk Divorce!” series, talking about the financial ramifications of divorce.Schaefer, shared, “Our clients’ peace of mind and financial security are our highest priorities. Our team of Michigan divorce attorneys regularly handle the most financially and emotionally complex family law related cases. With offices in Birmingham, Grosse Pointe Farms, and Harbor Springs, and also handling cases across America, our partnership of sophisticated and experienced lawyers deliver solutions to our clients’ matrimonial problems.”To listen to the full conversation on Impact Makers Radio, visit http://ImpactMakersRadio.com/Attorney-John-SchaeferTo discover more about John Schaefer, Attorney at Law visit: http://www.lfjfs.com
Attorney John Schaefer, recently appeared as a featured guest on the Impact Makers Radio Show, “Let's Talk Divorce!” series, talking about the financial ramifications of divorce.Schaefer, shared, “Our clients’ peace of mind and financial security are our highest priorities. Our team of Michigan divorce attorneys regularly handle the most financially and emotionally complex family law related cases. With offices in Birmingham, Grosse Pointe Farms, and Harbor Springs, and also handling cases across America, our partnership of sophisticated and experienced lawyers deliver solutions to our clients’ matrimonial problems.”To listen to the full conversation on Impact Makers Radio, visit http://ImpactMakersRadio.com/Attorney-John-SchaeferTo discover more about John Schaefer, Attorney at Law visit: http://www.lfjfs.com
Jaga Jazzist is an eight-piece Norwegian ensemble with a sound that draws from jazz, vintage funk, Krautrock and shoegaze. It adds up to a mesmerizing, exploratory and overwhelmingly energetic sound simply meant to be experienced live. Led by composer and multi-instrumentalist Lars Horntveth, the band first came together in a small Norwegian town in 1994, when the members were still teens. To date they've released seven full-length albums, including a live album with the Britten Sinfonia. The Mars Volta have cited them as a favorite, and invited the band to perform at the All Tomorrow's Parties Festival in 2005. We join Jaga Jazzist backstage to talk about what it takes to stay together for 20 years, embracing extremes of influence and the importance of going crazy every night. Then we take in a performance of Starfire, the exploratory title track of their latest album. Download Jaga Jazzist's Starfire as part of Season Two of LPR Live, with host John Schaefer. Listen to trailblazing new music performed live at Le Poisson Rouge, and enjoy interactions with artists and audience members. Subscribe to LPR Live on iTunes or wherever you get your podcasts.
Bruce Brubaker and Francesco Tristano are two virtuoso pianists from very different musical backgrounds. Brubaker is an American experimentalist known for his performances of music by John Adams, Meredith Monk and, especially, Philip Glass. Brubaker's former student, the Luxembourg musician Francesco Tristano, splits his time between concert-hall performances of J.S. Bach and Luciano Berio and club shows of beat-driven electronic dance music. On The Glass Piano Versions the two longtime friends mix their influences with Philip Glass’s piano works, infusing the music with free improvisation, ambient and live electronic beats. We join the two pianists to discuss the genesis and ideas behind The Glass Piano Versions before taking in a live performance at Le Poisson Rouge. Download Bruce Brubaker and Francesco Tristano performing the Glass Piano Versions as part of Season Two of LPR Live, with host John Schaefer. Listen to trailblazing new music performed live at Le Poisson Rouge, and enjoy interactions with artists and audience members. Subscribe to LPR Live on iTunes or wherever you get your podcasts.
The music of GABI is hard to pin down. Chopped vocal fragments float and cluster among classical orchestration, found sounds and abstract electronic textures. At times atmospheric, at times heart-breakingly intimate, the music takes cues from Meredith Monk and Björk, using the power of the human voice to create strange, densely-textured soundscapes that pendulum between song, improvisation and composition. A classically-trained vocalist and composer, Gabrielle Herbst released her debut album Sympathy in 2015 on Software Recording Company, a record label founded by electronic musician Oneohtrix Point Never. We join GABI in the green room at Le Poisson Rouge to discuss the relationship between text and sound and channeling fear to expose the profound vulnerability of the human voice. Then we take performances of her songs "Whole with You" and "Fleece" live at Le Poisson Rouge. Download GABI's Whole with You and Fleece as part of Season Two of LPR Live, with host John Schaefer. Listen to trailblazing new music performed live at Le Poisson Rouge, and enjoy interactions with artists and audience members. Subscribe to LPR Live on iTunes or wherever you get your podcasts.
For composer Daniel Wohl, the distinction between a physical performer and an electronic sound is inconsequential. While his music builds on the traditions of heady electronic pioneers like Morton Subotnick and Paul Lansky, he also takes inspiration from pulse-driven dance beats, minimalist chamber music and even visual art. Wohl's latest collection Holographic earned him accolades from both the contemporary classical and independent rock worlds for its seamless integration of live musicians and electronics, and its ability to transcend genre. It's heady but accessible, constructing surreal sonic landscapes as much at home in a concert hall as in an outer-borough warehouse or art space. We join Wohl backstage before his performance at Le Poisson Rouge to discuss the art, appeal and challenges of performing electroacoustic music live. Download selections from Daniel Wohl's Holographic as part of Season Two of LPR Live, with host John Schaefer. Listen to trailblazing new music performed live at Le Poisson Rouge, and enjoy interactions with artists and audience members. Subscribe to LPR Live on iTunes or wherever you get your podcasts.
Eartheater is the solo project of Queens-based singer, songwriter and guitarist Alexandra Drewchin. Her music exists in a world all its own, incorporating looped textures and pitch-shifted vocals alongside elements of mystical folk and ambient music. Drewchin's music is anchored by her poetry, which delves into concepts of lost identity, mysticism and disembodiment. Her performances seem as much spiritual, transformative rites as they are "music." We join Eartheater in the green room just before her performance at Le Poisson Rouge to discuss conceptual feedback loops, the singular and nomadic lifestyle of the touring musician, and what it means to be an eartheater before taking in a performance of her "Mask Therapy." Download Eartheater's Mask Therapy as part of Season Two of LPR Live, with host John Schaefer. Listen to trailblazing new music performed live at Le Poisson Rouge, and enjoy interactions with artists and audience members. Subscribe to LPR Live on iTunes or wherever you get your podcasts.
Composer and Princeton professor Dan Trueman is the inventor of a new instrument combining man and machine: the prepared digital piano. His Nostalgic Synchronic is a series of etudes that showcase the interactive instrument's capabilities, combining old-fashioned composition with responsive elements that anticipate the future of music performance. Like John Cage's Sonatas & Interludes for Prepared Piano, Nostalgic Synchronic is at once pleasantly familiar – drawing on traditions of Bach, and as Trueman notes, the Hungarian composer György Ligeti – and charged with unexpected colors and nuances. Last October, we joined Trueman and Sō Percussion's Adam Sliwinski (for whom the pieces were written) backstage at Le Poisson Rouge for conversation and musical demonstration followed by a live performance of Nostalgic Synchronic. Download Dan Trueman's Nostalgic Synchronic as part of Season Two of LPR Live, with host John Schaefer. Listen to trailblazing new music performed live at Le Poisson Rouge, and enjoy interactions with artists and audience members. Subscribe to LPR Live on iTunes or wherever you get your podcasts.
Port St. Willow, the project of Brooklyn-based Nicholas Principe, performed its second improvisational, atmospheric album Syncope at Le Poisson Rouge on November 17, 2015. Principe rearranged the album as a continuous live piece for himself, backed by contributors Will Epstein, The Antlers' Peter Silberman, and David Moore of Bing & Ruth. In his artist biography Principe writes, “This is visual music with an emotive core. An expression of love in response to sudden change, and the patient steps forward of a rebirth.” His music’s vast structures stretch that response, as if to somehow refuse too rapid a discovery, while his striking falsetto vocals highlight raw optimism motivating each transformative step. We join Principe, multi-instrumentalist Andrew Dunn and drummer Tommy Crane backstage to discuss the art of performing ambient music live and bringing new life to recorded music in a live setting. Download Port St. Willow's Syncope as part of Season Two of LPR Live, with host John Schaefer. Listen to trailblazing new music performed live at Le Poisson Rouge, and enjoy interactions with artists and audience members. Subscribe to LPR Live on iTunes or wherever you get your podcasts.
John Schaefer, director/founder of the Children’s Media Workshop (CMWworld.org), is an artist, educator, community builder who uses innovative media experiences to created macro educational systems. His expertise in designing large-scale initiatives is informed by his commitment to grass roots authenticity. One day he is working on major systems (800,000 + teachers), the next he is in an inner city classroom giving cameras to kids while looking for a damn marker that has ink. He is a translator of concepts and experiences. His documentary/art photographs of US political campaigning have been requested for the Library of Congress Master Photographers Collection Original Sundance documentary artist, featured at three film festivals, on numerous festival posters, and in a permanent installation at Sundance. Polaroid Artist In Residence – used Polaroid experimental films and large scale prints created at the MFA in Boston to document politics in America, featuring the 1984 campaign of President Reagan Designer of the Visual Learning Workshops, a literacy movement that resulted in the largest in-service teacher initiative in US History > over 800,000 teachers in hands-on workshops, resulting in two White House invitations Nissan Hometown Hero Award – featured on primetime network television, for youth empowerment through media experience and community activism Designed one of the first online courses and webinar, The Media Savvy Classroom, in conjunction with Columbia Teachers College MAPPTIVITIES – with Esri, HUD, DOT and NEA support developing an in depth curriculum that enables each student to understand the environmental and community impact of how s/he travels by using mapping media technology. Currently building a national model for K-12 inquiry based learning using critical thinking, creativity, communication, collaboration, Spatial and Media Literacy. CMWworld.org
This episode continues the series exploring the new music of Ireland. John Schaefer sits down with Jonathan Nangle at the Contemporary Music Centre in Dublin. Nangle tells how Donnacha Dennehy influenced him to explore more experimental music, and then shares how electronics and silence factor into his compositions. Listen to how Nangle uses electronics to subtly augment conventional instrumentation on "Where distant city lights flicker on half-frozen ponds". Hear Nangle explain how his piece "Then Falls by Shadow" takes the inspiration of Irish weather to combine shuffle mode with a choral performance. Later in the hour, John Schaefer talks to David Bremner about his own compositions and playing the pipe organ at Christ Church Cathedral in Dublin. Hear Bremner's piercing organ compositions "Variations upon 'the usual reason'" and "Amhrán na Leabhar." PROGRAM #3715 New Music from Ireland: Part 3 (First aired on 4/17/2015) ARTIST(S) RECORDING CUT(S) SOURCE Kate Ellis Jump Donnacha Dennehy: Aisling Gheal [2:09] Diatribe Records Jonathan Nangle Self-released DIY Aeolian Harp [:39] Soundcloud Jonathan Nangle new music::new Ireland 2 Where distant city lights flicker on half-frozen ponds [excerpt 1] [2:14] CMC Ireland Jonathan Nangle new music::new Ireland 2 Where distant city lights flicker on half-frozen ponds [excerpt 2] [4:47] See Above Ergodos Musicians I Call To You Jonathan Nangle: Ich ruf' zu Dir, Herr Jesu Christ [2:22] Ergodos Records Jonathan Nangle Commissioned for Dublin SoundLab untitled (after Dan Flavin) [1:42] Soundcloud Jonathan Nangle Commisioned by David Bremner and Elizabeth Hilliard Then Falls thy Shadow [:51] Soundcloud Jonathan Nangle Contermporaty Music from Ireland, Volume Nine Our headlights blew softly into the black illuminating very little [5:21] CMC Ireland – CMC CD09 Contemporary Music Centre Jonathan Nangle & David Bremner Ergodos 2009 'Off-Grid' Festival Untitled improvisation [1:25] Soundcloud David Bremner Contemporary Music from Ireland, Volume 2 Variations upon ‘the usual reason’ [4:40] CMC Ireland David Bremner L’Air Du Temps Amhrán na Leabhar [2:49] Soundcloud
Composer, keyboardist and bandleader, Missy Mazzoli, joins John Schaefer to introduce selections from her new recording, “Vespers for a New Dark Age.” The work, commissioned by Carnegie Hall for the 2014 Ecstatic Music Festival, is a 30-minute suite for singers, chamber ensemble and electronics, and is built around text, both spiritual and worldly, by contemporary poet Matthew Zapruder. Mazzoli wrote for the very specific voices of sopranos Martha Cluver, Melissa Hughes and alto Virginia Warnken Kelsey, who all have a lot of experience with contemporary music but also early and Baroque music. Her ensemble Victoire provides dramatic settings while drummer Glenn Kotche (perhaps best known for his work in Wilco) propels the work percussively. Plus, hear selections from Phil Kline’s millennial mass “John the Revelator,” written for the early/new music vocal group Lionheart and the quartet ETHEL. PROGRAM #3709 with Missy Mazzoli (First aired on 3/30/2015) ARTIST(S) RECORDING CUT(S) SOURCE DURATION Roomful of Teeth Render Missy Mazzoli: Vesper Sparrow, excerpt Due out April 28, 2015 New Amsterdam Records - #NWAM 065 newamrecords.com 1:00 Missy Mazzoli & Victoire Vespers for a New Dark Age I. Wayward Free Radical Dreams New Amsterdam Records - #NWAM 062 newamrecords.com 5:09 Missy Mazzoli & Victoire, feat. Martha Cluver & Glenn Kotche Vespers for a New Dark Age II. Hello Lord See above. 2:27 Missy Mazzoli & Victoire, feat. Melissa Hughes, Virginia Warnken Kelsey, Martha Cluver & Glenn Kotche Vespers for a New Dark Age IV. Come On All You See above. 5:35 Missy Mazzoli & Victoire Vespers for a New Dark Age V. New Dark Age See above. 2:40 Missy Mazzoli & Victoire Vespers for a New Dark Age VII. Machine See above. 4:47 Missy Mazzoli & Victoire Vespers for a New Dark Age VIII. Postlude See above. 4:35 Phil Kline (performed by Lionheart & ETHEL) John the Revelator The Man Who Knows Misery Cantaloupe 21047 cantaloupemusic.com 2:44 Phil Kline (performed by Lionheart & ETHEL) ETHEL John the Revelator Dark Was the Night See above. 5:50
November 19, 2014 Internet of Things Dan Goodman & Employee Recognition Expert John Schaefer
Ever wondered how the people on the covers of magazines could possibly be so fit? Well today, our resident “crazy in-shape” host, John Schaefer, is spilling the beans. He has 7 unique secrets that the mega-fit apply to their nutrition and work out routines. If you’re ready to take your training to the next level, you won’t want to miss this episode! Enjoy! ------- Subscribe to the podcast at TheBodyDoOverShow.com and never miss an episode. Each and every week we are bringing you a quick-and-to-the-point show tackling "real world" weight loss and fitness issues. Get a quick start to your perfect physique using John's weight loss blue print "My Body Do Over Quick Start" at FreeBodyDoOver.com or by texting “BodyDoOver” to 55678. Find old podcasts, read articles, join our community, access helpful resources, or track Matt’s progress at BodyDoOver.com.
Hit a plateau? Scale stopped moving? John Schaefer shares the first five places to look before doing anything drastic. ---------------------------- Get a quick start to your perfect physique using John's weight loss blue print "My Body Do Over Quick Start" at FreeBodyDoOver.com. Find old podcasts, read articles, join our community, or track Matt’s progress at BodyDoOver.com.
Fat Burning Circuit #3 with John Schaefer. Click "Subscribe" and never miss an episode. Each and every week the two will produce a quick-and-to-the-point show tackling "real world" weight loss and fitness issues. ---------------------------- Get a quick start to your perfect physique using John's weight loss blue print "My Body Do Over Quick Start" at FreeBodyDoOver.com
Fat Burning Circuit #2 with John Schaefer. Click "Subscribe" and never miss an episode. Each and every week the two will produce a quick-and-to-the-point show tackling "real world" weight loss and fitness issues. ---------------------------- Get a quick start to your perfect physique using John's weight loss blue print "My Body Do Over Quick Start" at FreeBodyDoOver.com
Fat Burning Circuit #1 with John Schaefer. Click "Subscribe" and never miss an episode. Each and every week the two will produce a quick-and-to-the-point show tackling "real world" weight loss and fitness issues. ---------------------------- Get a quick start to your perfect physique using John's weight loss blue print "My Body Do Over Quick Start" at FreeBodyDoOver.com
Staying true with the them of the show, John Schaefer has 3 more simple tips to accelerate fat burn and weight loss. Click "Subscribe" and never miss an episode. Each and every week the two will produce a quick-and-to-the-point show tackling "real world" weight loss and fitness issues. ---------------------------- Get a quick start to your perfect physique using John's weight loss blue print "My Body Do Over Quick Start" at FreeBodyDoOver.com
Science has come a long way. Many myths about weight loss have been dispelled recently. John Schaefer shares three big myths that could be actually keeping you fat. Click "Subscribe" and never miss an episode. Each and every week the two will produce a quick-and-to-the-point show tackling "real world" weight loss and fitness issues. ---------------------------- Get a quick start to your perfect physique using John's weight loss blue print "My Body Do Over Quick Start" at FreeBodyDoOver.com
John Schaefer and Matt Theriault kick off the inaugural episode of Body Do Over. Click "Subscribe" and never miss an episode. Each and every week the two will produce a quick-and-to-the-point show tackling "real world" weight loss and fitness issues. ---------------------------- Get a quick start to your perfect physique using John's weight loss blue print "My Body Do Over Quick Start" at FreeBodyDoOver.com
John Schaefer received his BS in Chemistry from the Polytechnic Institute in Brooklyn, NY; his PhD in Chemistry from the University of Illinois, Urbana; and his Postdoctoral Fellow from the California Institute of Technology. He began his career as an Assistant Professor of Chemistry at the University of California (Berkeley) before coming to the UA in 1960. He served on the UA faculty for 21 years, held titles of Head of the Department of Chemistry and Dean of the College of Liberal Arts, and served as President from 1971-1982. In 1982, he joined Research Corporation and served as President and CEO until December 2004. He currently serves as President of the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope project (LSST). He is an avid nature and landscape photographer and a regular contributor to many professional photographic journals. Dr. Schaefer remains active in national and international councils, committees and professional organizations. Dr. Schaefer's lecture was delivered on Feb. 27, 2012.
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